sauce
Americannoun
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any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
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stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food.
cranberry sauce.
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something that adds piquance or zest.
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Informal. sauciness; impertinence; impudence.
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Slang. Usually the sauce hard liquor.
He's on the sauce again.
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Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.
verb (used with object)
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to dress or prepare with sauce; season.
meat well sauced.
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to make a sauce of.
Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
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to give piquance or zest to.
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to make agreeable or less harsh.
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Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.
noun
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any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
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anything that adds piquancy
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stewed fruit
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dialect vegetables eaten with meat
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informal impudent language or behaviour
verb
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to prepare (food) with sauce
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to add zest to
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to make agreeable or less severe
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informal to be saucy to
Other Word Forms
- oversauce verb (used with object)
- sauceless adjective
Etymology
Origin of sauce
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin salsa, noun use of feminine of Latin salsus “salted,” past participle of sallere “to salt,” derivative of sāl “salt”; salt 1
Example Sentences
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And in Germany, blanched white or savoy cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef and cooked in a cream sauce are called kohlrouladen.
From Salon
His son regularly asks the family to send him macaroni and cheese, spam and hot sauce, Tomlin said.
A DJ, dressed in a traditional barong, blasts a dance remix of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” as a crowd gathers to take a shot of fish sauce together.
From Los Angeles Times
“Sorting is our special sauce,” said Gerrine Pan, the company’s vice president of partnerships.
From Los Angeles Times
Matijevich also makes a white sauce with béchamel and Parmesan cheese.
From Salon
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